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12-letter words containing f, o, r

  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
  • sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
  • slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
  • sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
  • small-format — A small-format store is one in which a large retail chain offers only part of their range in a smaller store.
  • sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
  • soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
  • soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • sr flip-flop — (hardware)   (Or "RS flip-flop") A "set/reset" flip-flop in which activating the "S" input will switch it to one stable state and activating the "R" input will switch it to the other state. The outputs of a basic SR flip-flop change whenever its R or S inputs change appropriately. A clocked SR flip-flop has an extra clock input which enables or disables the other two inputs. When they are disabled the outputs remain constant. If we connect two clocked SR flip-flops so that the Q and /Q outputs of the first, "master" flip-flop drive the S and R inputs of the second, "slave" flip-flop, and we drive the slave's clock input with an inverted version of the master's clock, then we have an edge-triggered RS flip-flop. The external R and S inputs of this device are latched on one edge (transition) of the clock (e.g. the falling edge) and the outputs will only change on the next opposite (rising) edge. If both R and S inputs are active (when enabled), a race condition occurs and the outputs will be in an indeterminate state. A JK flip-flop avoids this possibility.
  • stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
  • stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
  • stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
  • straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
  • strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
  • strobiliform — shaped as a strobilus
  • strong force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
  • subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
  • subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
  • sudoriferous — bearing or secreting sweat.
  • suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
  • sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
  • sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
  • take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
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